Links and Information to Share
Advance Directives - From the Tennessee Government Website
You can use these documents from the Tennessee Governemnt Website to let your family and doctor know your decisions for health care if you become unable to decide for yourself. You can appoint someone you know and trust as your health care decision maker to ensure that your choice or decision is honored. Forms can be downloaded in English and Spanish.
Own Your Future - Long-Term Care Awareness - the webpage addresses nursing homes and planning for elder care
Aging in the Know: Your Gateway to Health and Aging Resources on the Web (www.healthinaging.org/agingintheknow)
American Geriatrics Society (AGS) Foundation for Health in Aging Web-based Resource for Patients and their Clinicians
BRAVE KIDS Center for Practical Bioethics
raises and responds to ethical issues in health and healthcare. http://www.practicalbioethics.org/ Caring Connections, a program of the National Hospice and Palliative
Care Organization (NHPCO), is a national consumer engagement initiative
to improve care at the end of life, supported by a grant from The Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation. Caring Connections has implemented It's About
How You LIVE, a national community engagement campaign encouraging consumers
to make informed decisions about end-of-life care and services. The goal
of the LIVE campaign is to provide a unified message across the country
that motivates people to take action to improve end-of-life care for themselves,
their loved ones, and their communities. The Caring Connections site contains
a wealth of resources, including advance directives for all 50 states. Family Care Resource Connection Men Who Care - A Facebook Group for the discussion and encouragement
of care givers...especially males. Online go to: http://www.facebook.com
and search for Men Who Care or click
on this link Who Says Men Don't Care?
A Man's Guide to Balanced and Guilt-Free Caregiving, a book by James
V. Gambone, Ph.D. and Rhonda Travland, M.S. This Guide is one of a few
caregiving resources directed specifically to men. It is not a "how
to" care Guide but rather a way for men to better understand why
they care, the style of caregiving they provide, and how they can become
self-determined, balanced and guilt-free caregivers. National Institutes of
Health North Carolina Division
of Aging The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Web
site Aligning Forces for Quality is a $300 million initiative of the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation to improve the health and health care of all Americans.
RWJF launched Aligning Forces for Quality in 2006 as an effort to help
communities build health care systems where none now exist. The first
phase of AF4Q provided community leadership teams in 14 communities with
grants and substantial expert assistance to help them work with physicians
to improve their quality of care, to measure and publicly report on the
quality of ambulatory care, and to engage consumers to make informed choices
about their own health and health care. The program expanded in June 2008
to include inpatient care, as well as a focus on reducing racial and ethnic
gaps in care and enhancing the central role that nursing plays in good
health care. For information on AF4Q, please see http://www.rwjf.org/qualityequality/product.jsp?id=30951
Memphis is fortunate to be one of the 14 AF4Q pilot communities, under
the direction of the Healthy Memphis Common Table (http://www.healthymemphis.org).
The project is working to engage consumers, providers and payers to improve
quality through public reporting of performance on key measures of outpatient
quality of care. Work is also underway to educate consumers about the
critical components of high quality care so they can seek high quality
health care for themselves and better take control of their health. The
Mid-South Comfort Care Coalition is a partner in the AF4Q community engagement
effort. Please visit the HMCT website to learn more. Safe Return
Over 1,000 reviewed and rated caregiving resources
Senior Health is an excellent reliable site for health info
Good graphics for community presentation; lots of links for information
Dedicated to improving the health and health care of all Americans
Tennessee Hospice Organization was founded in 1989 to represent the state’s hospice providers.
TELP http://www.endoflifecaretn.org/ The Tennessee End-of-Life Partnership (TELP) is a non-profit, statewide organization. Its objective is to continually define and promote best practices in End-of-Life Care. Membership includes health care professionals, educators, policymakers, and representatives of corporation, associations, consumer advocacy groups, and healthcare facilities. TELP's primary role is to encourage and support local "grass-roots" coalitions in the geographical regions of the state whose purpose is improving End-of-Life care. The voices of these geographical communities are crucial for developing and influencing policies and legislation regarding End-of-Life care.